Privacy online is dead.. I remember all those lessons as a kid saying that it is never a good idea to put your information online at all. Kids today do it with no regard to safety. Once they hit Facebook, it is all down hill.

I usually take the difference between the SR-71 Blackbird and the most advanced commercial plane when it was developed ( huge leap in technology) and assume that the government has that kind of advancement for any technology at any point. So if a commercial company can identify a picture against a set database with 95 percent accuracy, the government probably already has the ability to identify from security camera images.

"You are being watched. Marketing has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of Asshatery, but it sees everything. Stupidity involving ordinary people; people like you. Stupidity the Ad Agencies considered 'irrelevant'. They wouldn't act, so I decided I would. But I needed a willing partner, a company with the skills to intervene. Admired by by the NSA, we work in secret. You'll never find us, but dumbass or bystander, if your number's up... we'll find you".

TinEye does a pretty good job already. A random test: there is an actress on "The Office," Jenna Fischer, who must have many pictures on the internet. Can the TinEye software find a particular picture of Jenna Fischer posted on Fark over four years ago? How long does the TinEye search take?

Here is the picture:Success. it found the Fark image in this thread: http://www.fark.com/comments/4510972/High-school-girls-softball-coach- fired-for-hosting-an-end-of-season-cookout-at-his-home-where-beer-was- served-FARK-Not-to-students-to-other-parentsSearch took 1.249 seconds and searched 3.9725 billion images.

Google image search does even better. It finds the Fark image and about two dozen "visually similar" face matches, all Jenna's.

I've been saying for many years that we live in a historically unusual bubble of anonymity. It wasn't that long ago that the vast majority of people lived in small towns, tribes, clans, or whatever, in which everyone knew everyone else. You could not do much of anything, including date someone, without everyone you knew knowing.

And it won't be long before all the still and video images taken by security cameras and cell phones are available online, and software exists to process and index them. Looking for someone? Oh, there's the most recent picture of him, putting gas in his car at the corner station about 3 minutes ago.

So this period we've been living in, between the time that cities got big enough for a person to be somewhat anonymous, and when technology makes anonymity nearly impossible, will be seen as unusual, I think.

Delay:TinEye does a pretty good job already. A random test: there is an actress on "The Office," Jenna Fischer, who must have many pictures on the internet. Can the TinEye software find a particular picture of Jenna Fischer posted on Fark over four years ago? How long does the TinEye search take?

Here is the picture:

Success. it found the Fark image in this thread: http://www.fark.com/comments/4510972/High-school-girls-softball-coach- fired-for-hosting-an-end-of-season-cookout-at-his-home-where-beer-was- served-FARK-Not-to-students-to-other-parentsSearch took 1.249 seconds and searched 3.9725 billion images.

Google image search does even better. It finds the Fark image and about two dozen "visually similar" face matches, all Jenna's.

Okay, folks, when you post something online? You're posting it into someone else's house. It's not even just "Public space", but simply, "This is my house and I write the rules as I see fit". It's not a Democracy, it's not a case where you get to whine and say "You should listen to the people and let us write your rules for you", simply put, your only choice is not to participate.

If a friend posts a photo of you there, and you don't consent to that, then it's between you and your friend to sort out. If the photo is taken in public space, then you have no recourse, as no release is required. If the photo is taken at a private party, then your recourse is significantly little, all things considered. But quit biatching at a server that balances a face against another face to see if they're similar. The only way the facial recognition software works properly is if you've made a profile there yourself, and uploaded photos there yourself, and confirmed yourself as being in a photo at least a few times.

TL:DR: Quit your biatching, your problems are your own, stop blaming the amorphous "System" for being caught on film vomiting onto a naked midget in Times Square.

All I know is that it is creepy! My dad posted a pic of me and him when I was about a year and a half old and Facebook knew it was me! I mean I look a lot younger than I actually am, but not THAT young!